The wife of detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil accused federal immigration officials of purposely denying a request for her husband to attend the birth of their first child in order to make the family suffer.

Noor Abdalla said in a statement that she had to give birth to a baby boy on Monday without her husband by her side. She said ICE had declined a request to grant Khalil temporary release from a detention center in Louisiana so he could travel to New York for the birth of the baby.

“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Abdalla said in the statement, adding how her husband is being “unjustly” detained.

"ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family in an attempt to silence Mahmo

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